Storage

SMB cloud report: Storage is strong upsell opportunity for IaaS vendors
According to Parallels' latest SMB Cloud Insights research, 50% of small and medium businesses are willing to pay more for increased storage, and at least six million SMBs entered the cloud market for the first time in 2012.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 08-Feb-2013

Japan's sci & tech institute adds 3-Petabyte storage to private cloud

The new three-petabyte storage infrastructure will enable Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology to access information quickly and efficiently protect large amounts of graduate-level education and research data.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 07-Feb-2013
Nimble Storage expands into S’pore, eyes storage market growth
Nimble Storage, a fast-growing solutions provider, has opened its Singapore office as part of a targeted investment plan to expand operations as the company advances towards an IPO.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 23-Jan-2013

CITIC Telecom CPC partners with EMC and Riverbed on cloud

CITIC Telecom CPC enhances its SmartCLOUD hybrid cloud portfolio with EMC's storage capabilities and Riverbed's traffic and application balancing solution TAB (Traffic and Application Balancer).
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 24-Aug-2012
Terremark, EMC to help speed up cloud deployment
Terremark is betting on the information infrastructure vendor’s storage, backup and replication technologies for its Enterprise Cloud Private Edition as well as public and hybrid deployments.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 12-Jun-2012

HP debuts Monsoon for hybrid cloud management

HP has begun commercializing Monsoon, a cloud infrastructure management solution developed by HP Labs in Singapore for hybrid cloud environments. Meanwhile, HP moved its first public cloud services to beta last week.
by: Khoo Boo Leong 14-May-2012

Cloud for healthcare in APAC -- more than image archiving

What are the current cloud-based healthcare initiatives in APAC? How can "community clouds" assist collaborative healthcare? What are the common "compliance stamps" recognized in different APAC? And what are the misconceptions about cloud models that healthcare organizations have?
by: Carol Ko 30-Apr-2012

IBM lists 7 considerations for cloud storage

Look beyond capacity in support of an infrastructure-wide scale-out when evaluating scalability to be able to support changing business needs. It is important that a cloud storage solution integrates with other cloud platforms to ensure unified, end-to-end provisioning across a heterogenous platform.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 27-Apr-2012

Managing big data in the cloud -- 3 biz scenarios

How can cloud computing help address the big data challenge in these business scenarios: hospitals that store ever-expanding pools of patients' data; governments that process loads of citizen's data, and financial institutions that perform analyses at near-zero network latency?
by: Carol Ko 31-Jan-2012

HDS reviews: Virtualization to remain as key cloud foundation

In 2011, HDS completed its infrastructure cloud offerings with the launch of a virtualized cloud infrastructure strategy for private, public and hybrid clouds. Read on to see how the Beijing Computing Center obtains file management resources using Hitachi's cloud-based infrastructure.
by: Carol Ko 03-Jan-2012